Design-Based Research

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and issues central to the study of learning, including the following:

The need to address theoretical questions about the nature of learning in context

The need for approaches to the study of learning phenomena in the real world situations rather than the laboratory

The need to go beyond narrow measures of learning.

The need to derive research findings from formative evaluation.

Characteristics of design-based research experiments include:

addressing complex problems in real, authentic contexts in collaboration with practitioners

applying integrating known and hypothetical design principles to render plausible solutions

conducting rigorous and reflective inquiry to test and refine innovative learning environments

intertwined goals of (1) designing learning environments and (2) developing theories of learning

research and development through continuous cycles of design, enactment, analysis, and redesign

research on designs that must lead to sharable ...

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